Sun Enterprise 10000 Issues

This section contains general issues, known bugs, patches, and notes about the Solaris 7 release on the Sun(TM) Enterprise(TM) 10000.

General Issues

Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR), Alternate Pathing (AP), and Inter-Domain Networks (IDN) are not supported in the Solaris 7 release.

Before beginning the fresh install or upgrade procedures, you must install the SSP patches described in the next section.

Solaris 7 and Boot-Disk Partition Sizes

If you are upgrading the operating environment from Solaris 2.6 to Solaris 7 and you used the partition layout suggested in the Solaris 7 Sun Hardware Platform Guide, the partitions may not be large enough for the upgrade to succeed. For instance, the /usr partition must be at least 653 megabytes. If /usr is smaller than the size needed to perform the upgrade, suninstall uses the Dynamic Space Reallocation (DSR) mode to reallocate the space of the disk partitions.

DSR may calculate a partition layout which is not acceptable for some systems. For instance, DSR may select partitions that appear to DSR as being unused (non-UFS partitions which may contain raw data or other types of file systems). If DSR selects a used partition, data loss may occur. Therefore, you must know the current status of the partitions DSR wants to use before you allow DSR to continue with the reallocation of the disk partitions.

After DSR presents an acceptable layout and you choose to proceed with the reallocation, DSR will adjust the affected file systems, and the upgrade will continue. However, if you cannot constrain the layout so that it is acceptable for your needs, then you may need to manually repartition the boot device before you do the upgrade, or you may have to perform a fresh install.

Solaris 7 and the SSP

If you are installing Solaris 7 on a domain or upgrading a domain's current Solaris operating environment, you must have SSP 3.1 installed on the SSP. In addition, before you perform the Solaris 7 upgrade on an Enterprise 10000 domain, the SSP must have Patch-ID 105684-04. This patch is on your Solaris 7 Sun Computer Systems Supplement CD.

If the CD contains later versions of the patches, indicated by a higher-numbered suffix, use those patches instead of the patch numbers indicated in these instructions.

SSP 3.0 does not support Solaris 7 on a domain.

Patch-ID 105684-04

This patch is on your Solaris 7 Sun Computer Systems Supplement CD.

Description: OBP/download_helper needs to support 2.7

BugIDs fixed with this patch: 4078459 4083870 4084325 4097230 4102171 4118746 4137422 4146592

Patch-ID 106281-01

This patch is on your Solaris 7 Sun Computer Systems Supplement CD.

Description: SSP 3.1 sys_id -m doesn't work in year 2000 or after (Y2K bug)

BugIDs fixed with this patch: 4105569

Patch-ID 106282-01

This patch is on your Solaris 7 Sun Computer Systems Supplement CD.

Description: SSP 3.1 Hostview suppresses trap messages after 1999

BugIDs fixed with this patch: 4108443